Nancy Macqueen

Lt Nancy Florence Macqueen (Shepherd)

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Born in Hobart, Tasmania on 10th April, 1917. In 1922, when she was 5, she and her family went by ship to Sydney and lived in Cremorne. She was educated at various local schools including SCEGGS Darlinghurst up until 1933.
She wanted to go nursing and did voluntary work at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Fortunately, at the time, she discovered a job notice in the newspaper for an experienced nurse at St Hellen's Hospital at Chatswood so she applied and got the job. She did her Nursing training from 1936 to 1940 at Prince Alfred Hospital with the 4th Preliminary Training School. Sister Macqueen was asked to stay on staff and was given a big ward to administer.

In March 1942 she joined up with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and was sent to the Sydney Showground where many soldiers were in training. She had various postings in and around Sydney: Ingleburn the School of Artillery at Randwick and the Camp Hospital on Dramalbon Rd in Bellevue Hill.

In 1943 she moved to the 2/5th Australian General Hospital (2/5 AGH) and saw service in Port Moresby in PNG and on the Borneo island of Morotai, and stayed there until the end of the War in 1945. She was then sent to Manilla in the Philippines with six other nurses to watch over the POWs arriving from Japan and Hong Kong. She flew back home to Sydney in October 1945 and then spent the rest of her time in the Army at the Military Hospital in Punchbowl until January 1947 when she was discharged.

She married Ord Shepherd in 1947.

Nancy Macqueen. AANS

Macqueen, Lyttle, Greenwood, Christoe.

Nancy Shepherd

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Manila 1945-10-09

Embarkation of British and Canadian ex-Prisoners of War on the Aircraft Carrier HMS Glory, bound for Canada and the United Kingdom. Australian Sisters at the gangway of the Landing Craft Infantry to farewell the ex-Prisoners of War. NFX 117290 Sister L. Greenwood and NFX 122285 Sister N. Macqueen, both of the 2/5 Australian General Hospital are pictured at the far right of the group of the five Sisters.

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Manila 1945-10-09

Embarkation of British and Canadian ex-Prisoners of War on the Aircraft Carrier HMS Glory, bound for Canada and the United Kingdom. An Australian Sister farewells one of her British patients at the gangway of the Landing Craft Infantry. She is NFX 122285 Lieutenant N. Macqueen, of the 2/5 Australian General Hospital attached to 248 United States General Hospital from the 3rd Australian Prisoner Of War Reception Group.